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Enterprise Architect/Senior Enterprise Architect (GSe106972)

Cabinet Office

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Bristol, London, Manchester

About the job

Job summary

The Cabinet Office is undergoing a significant Digital Transformation. Over the next three years we aspire to make UK Government digital services the best in the world, meeting or exceeding the benchmark set globally by the best public or private sector standards. For us to meet this ambition we are aiming to further improve the conditions, processes and expertise we have in place to be set up for success. This means we need to go much further and faster and strengthen the delivery of DDaT in government.

To support these ambitions we have established a new to build on existing strengths and is based on six principles; 

  • Build trust by stabilising services and getting the basics right. 
  • Be the gateway for all digital, data and technology services delivered by the Cabinet Office to its civil servants and ministerial bodies.. 
  • Provide impeccable service to our users. 
  • Drive digital, data and technology thought leadership. 
  • Transform ways of working. 
  • Build sustainable capabilities 

Job description

This role sits within the Chief Technology Office within Cabinet Office Digital reporting to Principal Enterprise Architect and supporting the Chief Technology Officer. We are responsible for architecture and engineering across the Cabinet Office and own the newly commissioned Technical Design Authority for the department. We work in collaboration with individual business units and Arms Length Bodies to align technology and operate platforms for the benefit of the products and teams dependent upon them.  

This is an exciting opportunity to lead and shape the delivery of digital services with business units across the Cabinet Office, working on a wide variety of projects from high profile public-facing sites to internal digital transformation projects.  

As Enterprise Architect / Senior Enterprise Architect you will: 

  • Have a track record of providing hands-on, pragmatic architectural experience. Ideally, you will have some experience in developing and defining technology strategy and Architecture, with this being successfully embedded into the enterprises. 
  • Have considerable experience of driving and delivering technological change at pace against a background of organisational transformation and working across organisational boundaries with changing and challenging priorities. 
  • Be skilled at engaging at a strategic level and playing a key role in setting organisational objectives, influencing policy and leading on technical and business change. 
  • Have strong experience in communicating effectively between the business and technology on a peer basis at a senior level. 
  • Have knowledge of developing business architecture within organisations and using it to facilitate improved organisational outcomes through supporting strategic decision making and optimal business design. 

Person specification

It’s essential that you have: 

  • Strong experience in using architecture to influence technical direction decisions, turning business requirements into architecture designs. 
  • Strong software development or technology background, with a good knowledge of Agile development, techops best practice and a mixture of cloud and non-cloud technology. 
  • Strong experience in navigating the complex landscapes of technologies, 3rd party suppliers, internal and cross-government teams.  
  • Experience in defining and adopting a technical strategy and road map.  
  • Strong leadership and communication skills.   

Desirable Skills 

  • Some knowledge or experience of developing business architecture and using it to facilitate improved organisational outcomes through supporting strategic decision making and optimal business design.   
  • knowledge of an architectural framework and how to adopt and apply it to an organisation.   

Additional information

A minimum 60% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace. Although requirements to attend other locations for official business will also count towards this level of attendance.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £55,298, Cabinet Office contributes £15,876 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

  • Learning and development tailored to your role.
  • An environment with flexible working options.
  • A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
  • A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and average employer contributions of 27%.
  • A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30.

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

  • Name : GatenbySanderson - Shoaib Haroon / Russell Brandon
  • Email : joincodigital@gatenbysanderson.com
  • Telephone : 0207 4263960

Recruitment team

  • Email : cabinetofficerecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles.

If you feel that your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and wish to make a complaint, then in the first instance you should contact Government Recruitment Service at: cabinetofficerecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk.

If you are not satisfied with the response that you receive, then you can contact the Civil Service Commission at: info@csc.gov.uk.

For further information on the Recruitment Principles, and bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission, please visit their website at: https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk.

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